| Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges Contributor(s): Cornwall, Andrea (Editor), Harrison, Elizabeth (Editor), Whitehead, Ann (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1842778196 ISBN-13: 9781842778197 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: The political project of reasserting feminist engagement with development has proceeded uneasily in recent years. This book examines how the arguments of feminist researchers have often become depoliticised by development institutions and offers richly contextualised accounts of the pitfalls and compromises of the politics of engagement. Speaking from within academic institutions, social movements, development bureaucracies and national and international NGOs, the contributors highlight on-going battles for interpretation and the unequal power relations within which these battles take place. They engage with the challenges of achieving solidarity in the context of increasingly polarised geo-political relations, and advance a diversity of critiques of simplified ideas about gender, and how these ideas come to be interpreted in institutional policies and practices. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 2006032575 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 7.54" W x 8.54" (0.76 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presented feminists with some enormous challenges. Here, emphasizing the importance of a plurality of approaches, the authors argue for the importance of what 'feminisms' have to say to development. Confronting the enormous challenges for feminisms in development studies, this book provides real hope for dialogue and exchange between feminisms and development. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cornwall, Andrea: - Andrea Cornwall is professor of anthropology and international development in the School of Global Studies at Sussex University. She is coeditor of Dislocating Masculinity and Men and Development. |
